The Antibiotic Crisis: Methods to Circumvent Resistance and Ways to move Forward
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Authors
Spencer, Sophia
Issue Date
2019
Type
Presentation
Language
en_US
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Abstract
In 2013, the human race was declared to be in a “post-antibiotic
era” by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Due to inappropriate prescriptions, overuse in agriculture, and the
transfer of resistance genes through the environment, resistance
has been seen to almost all available antibiotics. Multi-drug
resistant pathogens have been declared a threat to public health and
national security by the Institute of Medicine and the Interagency
Task Force on Antimicrobial Resistance. In fact, more Americans
are killed per year by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
(MRSA) than by HIV/AIDS, Parkinson’s Disease, emphysema,
and homicide combined. In order to preserve the use of the
antibiotics we have, and prevent future resistance, it is imperative
that strategies to counteract resistance be implemented, and
alternate methods be developed to treat bacterial infections.
Description
1 Broadside. 48"W x 36"H
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Publisher
Kalamazoo, Mich. : Kalamazoo College
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